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Quotes o’ the Day

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

— Lillian Dickson

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I don’t like soccer. It’s like watching grass grow with a bunch of soccer players in the way.

— Stephen Colbert

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We can say that the multitude of Civil War dead represents hundreds of thousands of homes, and hundreds of thousands of families, that might have been, and never were. They represent millions of people who might have been part of our population today and are not. We have lost the books they might have written, the scientific discoveries they might have made, the inventions they might have perfected. Such a loss defies measurement.

— Allan Nevins

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Women run for office to do something. Men run for office to be somebody.